Father of Texas Witness Goes on Fox News to Defend Guns Following Attack, Wears the Perfect Shirt

In a Monday appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News, a father whose son witnessed Sunday’s mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, demonstrated his continued support for the Second Amendment.

Mike Jordan, who was interviewed by host Laura Ingraham about the role of guns in the massacre that left 26 people dead, wore a shirt that read, “Buy a Gun. Annoy a Liberal.”

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Ingraham asked Jordan if anyone in the church was carrying a firearm when the gunman opened fire.

Jordan said that an acquaintance of his son was at the church when the shooting occurred. The acquaintance usually carries a firearm but had left his gun at home with his wife on Sunday, The Daily Caller reported.

“A small town like this, you know, people show up to church, they disarm, leave their guns in the car, because you don’t expect something like this to happen,” Jordan said.

“As he put it,” Jordan continued, referencing his son’s acquaintance, “What if this was the day that he didn’t leave that firearm at home? What if he did take it with him?”

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Jordan said it is difficult to be prepared for a “psycho” to open fire at a church, but he wishes that someone there had been armed and able to return fire on accused shooter Devin Patrick Kelley, according to the Independent Journal Review.

“If you have one person on the inside that is armed to return fire, it may not have stopped people from dying, but it would have stopped that many people from dying,” Jordan said. “It would’ve been a distraction, it would have got that guy’s attention.”

Ingraham noted that the “American left” was claiming that “Republicans have blood on their hands because they’re bought and paid for by the NRA.”

Jordan contended that the “left keeps putting blame” but “the NRA, Republicans, no one is responsible for this.”

“Let me put it this way,” Jordan said. “Yesterday a very good friend of mine engaged the shooter with his AR-15. He ran from his home to the shooting site less than a block from a house here. He engaged the shooter with his AR-15 and he shot the guy. We know for a fact he shot him at least two to three times.”

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“It stopped the guy,” Jordan continued. “It stopped him. From that point the shooter then ran, got in his vehicle. My friend shot him again. They pursued and later down the road after a chase the guy crashed and that was the end of it.”

If Kelley had not been intercepted by a law-abiding citizen with a firearm, Jordan said that there could have been more casualties.